Revival of what? excuse me? Qadir played his last match in 1993, Kumble played his first in 1991. They were good enough legspinners. The fact is that even if Warne wasn't there, sub continent would never has run out of leggies. Qadir, Somachandra de Silva, Narendra Hiwani, Mushtaq Ahmed, Anil Kumble, Danish Kaneria all were quality performers. Art was not lost to be revived, at least in SC.

Member of the Sanga fan club. (Ugh! it took me so long to become a real fan of his)

Blatantly anti-Warne post, this.
Warne has stats comparable to Murali and was far more exciting to watch than any other spinner. Theres no denying how unique and special he was in terms of entertainment.
It was always great fun to watch him work out a plan for every batsman and more often than not, he executed it perfectly.

In my own point of view I would agree with you. But in writers point of view he's baltently pracvtising double standards. Warne brought nothing new to cricket, and is in 1st XI. Saqlain put off spinners in cricket map, but not even in the 10th. And writer says he's looking for players who have given something new to the game. Have your own judgemnt it I'd say.

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Everyone always brings up him averaging 50+ for his last 10 years. He only scored 5 centuries, and 6 overall. His batting is very overrated. The only allrounders with worse batting are Hadlee and Kapil. He was an excellent bowler, but a very, very average batsman.

I think it was Australian and English journalists and the lack of quality leg spinners in Ashes series. He inspired a new generation of leg spinners in OZ, just as Lillee did for pace bowlers. None of my mates even thought about bowling spin when Lillee was the best bowler in the world.

I had almost forgot how to play a wrong un and then along came Warne and all these young leg spinners were causing me trouble

No, you don't always revive something that is necessarily dead or extinct. Moreover, none of those spinners can hold Warne's jock-strap.

The point of the compliment to Warne is that the world had become very pace-orientated. The Windies with their all pace attacks became the standard and almost every team in the world had an ATG pacer in the era directly prior. Spin was no longer on the same pedestal. It took someone like Warne to really put it back on par or for teams to think that they must have a spinner for the sake of balance.

Every time you bring this stupid retort this has to be explained to you. You might not agree with the sentiment, but don't act like people pulled it from their arse.